Yoga Therapy
Psycho-somatic coaching
Book an appointment
I’m seeing clients in person and virtually.
In-person we either meet at The Launchpad for hands-on therapy appointments or at Crown Mountain Park for walk-n-talk movement therapy.
Schedule a call to discuss which one is right for you.
PUBLIC GROUP OFFERINGS
in Carbondale, CO
WEEKLY: Yoga & Meditation class at True Nature on Thursdays at 5:30 pm.
2x YEAR: Mother Circle (8 week series) offered each spring & fall at the Launchpad.
+ Each equinox - Somatic Breakwork Immersion (half day event) at True Nature.
Explore emotional patterns and release tension through yoga and body-centered practices.
I combine traditional yoga therapy (postures, breathwork, and meditation) with somatic techniques that address how the body holds onto stress and trauma.
Life changes—like motherhood, personal loss, or job shifts—can leave us feeling lost. Anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction are often our body’s response when feeling unsupported. Schedule an appointment and learn how yoga and somatics can support you. Learning the language of your body is easier than you might think and true self-care is at your fingertips.
New Clients:
Please schedule a 20-minute intro call to see if we are a good fit.
Get in touch to chat and see if somatic therapy is right for you, because you deserve to learn the language of your body.
This is a no-pressure call, no obligation to work together after we connect - It’s a vibe check and a discussion about areas you seek help with. Even if we don’t end up working together, I offer a fresh perspective and often point people in a new direction on their healing journey. Take advantage!
nervous system regulation
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structural body alignment
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emotional embodiment
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nervous system regulation 〰️ structural body alignment 〰️ emotional embodiment 〰️
I believe that the key to well-being is connection: to ourselves and to others. Self-awareness, acceptance and access to personal joy spill over to fulfilling relationships.
Throughout my life, I accumulated an array of diverse trainings - navigating the complexities of my life, and trained in modalities that I found miraculous. I learned that when we are out of alignment with ourselves and our partners - our body, mind and spirit let us know. Sometimes it is with worry and anxiety. Sometimes it’s depression. Sometimes aches and pains. Sometimes anger and sadness. Our bodies and nervous systems communicate with us. You can become your own healer when you know how to listen for and properly support your physical and emotional needs. Every symptom, behavior, and belief makes sense if we slow down long enough to understand it.
I coach from lived experience. I spent my twenties and thirties overextending myself - serial entrepreneurship to burnout, complexities of motherhood, raising small children, depression, body image issues, childhood trauma, boundary violations, addiction, looming divorce to name a few. It’s been a ride to grasp what true self-care is. Have I figured it all out? Lol, no... I've learned a lot from my ups and downs and I am here to help you navigate yours.
If the following statements resonate with you, chances are we are a good fit.
You have been on a journey to regain health & wellbeing for a while.
Maybe you’ve been told it is all in your head, the lab tests are okay, or the findings don’t explain the fatigue, pain, or lack of joy you are feeling.
You are hurting in ways you can’t put your finger on.
You are willing to invest emotional resources to know more about what is eating you, be clear about what you haven’t made peace with, take responsibility for the parts of yourself you are driven to deny and be accountable for what may lay outside your awareness.
You want to explore the origins of your emotional patterns.
You are ready to identify and break through outdated repetitive patterns that lead to diminished relationships with yourself and others, compost anger, fear and pain in order to grow self compassion.
You are ready to let go of the belief that you are inadequate.
You know it is time to be honest with yourself about what shaped you, dust off the shelved hurts and spin the cobwebs of your wounds into gold for a more whole and treasured life.
INVESTMENT
Single Sessions
online & in person
$180 (75mins) / $145 (60mins)
I keep 2 session spots/week open for tight budgets at $85. Let me know if you need this during our intro call.
ONGOING SUPPORT
Click here to learn about 5- and 3-month programs.
How it works
Yoga therapy recognizes the interconnectedness of our bodily, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. Making changes in one realm brings about changes in the others.
It offers both - short-term solutions and long-term support.
For starters, there is an array of traditional yoga practices (stretches, breathwork, meditation, kriyas) to manage and ease symptoms.
Then, for long-term health - we learn the language of the body - what aches, pains, and anxieties mean, how to decode the signs your body sends you - asking for help before dis-ease unfolds. We learn how to weed out symptoms and dive into the root causes of ailments, to bring about lasting change.
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Structural Alignment, Nutrition, Movement, Stress physiology, Fascia-care
Depleted by: inefficient posture (causes nervous system overwork), dull nutrition, lack of / too much movement
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Prana (or Qi), Energy depletion & renewal, Emotional freedom, Zest for Life, Eros
Depleted by: tech overstimulation, lack of sunlight, emotional bracing, disassociation from body
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Habituated reactions and thought patterns, Triggers, Meaning-making
Depleted by: co-dependency, overconsuming input, blame
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Discernment, Awareness, Agency, Ability to choose our response, Creativity, Flow
Depleted by: overdoing, lack of downtime and boredom, unexamined formative years,
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Undisciminating Joy, Contentment, Freedom
Depleted by: a feeling of “have to” - unexamined workings of the other four layers of our being, judgement, fear
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YT recognizes multiple layers of our being: the physical body, the energy body, the mental and spiritual body. Addressing one affects the other.
The body is the seat of our subconscious.
Even changing a small thing like posture can bring about a cascading change: core beliefs speak up, and childhood memories re-surface.
The other way around works the same: learning emotional expression craves movement.
Psycho-somatic therapy understands the interconnectedness of the layers our being and works to bring about cohesion and synergy between our body, thoughts, emotions and expression.
WHAT WE DO IN SESSIONs
In each session: 1/3 discussion & progress tracking, 1/3 breath or meditation, 1/3 movement re-patterning.
I’ve got a lot of tools in my toolbox —>
What we do can differ based on what is pressing for you: This can be:
thought pattern discussion + breathwork + movement awareness
habit tracking + posture alignment + emotional expression
pendulation exercise + boundary exploration + yoga nidra
desire exploration + breathwork + debrief of what came up
upheaval sharing + hypno-meditation + tension release
There are two things I always teach as a basis for living life well:
Structural body alignment to relieve the central nervous system from overworking in the form of bracing, tightness, and left/right misalignment.
Somatic practices to relieve the autonomic nervous system and have your body respond with fight-flight-freeze when appropriate.
Other ways to work with me
The quickest route to healing is to join a group
Self-regulation is the foundation for healing, and co-regulation with others - being seen and witnessing others - is key to groundedness and comfort with the inevitable messiness of the human experience.
In My Toolbox
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Movement practices to add to your mornings or evenings.
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Guided meditations, non-sleep deep rest, tapping and more.
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I use somatic parts work technique, compassionate inquiry, and yoga bhavana to identify, embrace and break through outdated repetitive patterns and grow beyond our current skin.
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Integrative change work is a conversational change making technique that variety of evidence-based techniques from modalities like Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), tapping (EFT), and rapid self-hypnosis to change patterns and habits at the unconscious level. No hypnotic trance required! It is a very empowering tool that teaches you how to stay in the driver's seat and not get swept bayside with your emotions, nervous system state, phobias, or anxiety.
It works as well for adults as for children.
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Quick, easy & no-fuss recipes to support your body systems in need of extra support. Doing deep work requires large amounts of emotional energy for processing and understanding.
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Non-interventionist, nervous system-friendly restorative breathwork that trains your body to deeply rest.
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Small changes that lead to big results.
What people are saying
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"Thank you so much. Every time I meditate with you, I release and integrate so much profound work. Thank you so so so much. You have clearly done the work and I am so grateful. It feels like a miracle."
Ashby C.
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"Vanda has changed my life with her tactical logical hands on health coaching as well as her healing, loving vibration that helps settle my system to be my most blossomed self. She's it and that's that."
Mollie K.
FAQs
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Yoga Therapy is a powerful healing modality that examines imbalances present on multiple levels of existence - physical, energetic, mental, and spiritual. To address the imbalances yoga therapy uses movement, posture, breathwork, inquiry, mindfulness, and awareness exercises.
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It helps with physical and emotional discomfort, pain, mood regulation, and supports your physical and emotional needs ranging from back problems to emotional distress. Short term it can help cope with your particular dis-ease and long term it can address the root cause of the dis-ease. In our sessions, I tend to start with how to care for your body, mind and spirit with the most critical aspects of self-care: rest (active rest & sleep), nutrition & digestion, movement, and enjoying life.
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Yoga therapy is a modern application of the tools of yogic tradition to individual care. It integrates traditional yogic concepts and techniques with Western medical and psychological knowledge.
Whereas traditional Yoga is primarily concerned with personal transcendence of a healthy individual —> Yoga therapy aims at the holistic treatment of various kinds of psychological or somatic dysfunctions ranging from back problems to emotional distress.What both yoga therapy and the public yoga class yoga share, is an understanding of the human being as an integrated body-mind system, which functions optimally in a state of dynamic balance.
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Many come to yoga therapy thinking that being an advanced yogi is a prerequisite. The opposite is true! I find that the less you (think) you know the better! I like to compare yoga therapy home-work to brushing your teeth - its power is hidden in the small, unsexy, daily tasks that add up to have a big effect on your health.